Two Strings to Your Bow (1791)

Author
Robert Jephson
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
Performance Medium
Spoken Drama
Associated work receipts The physical apparatus employed on and around the stage to support, enhance and sometimes substitute the performers' enactment of drama.
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
£15,018 11s 6d £10,803 4s (71.9%) £4,215 7s 6d (28.1%)
1732 - 1809
£15,018 11s 6d - (100%) £10,803 4s (71.9%) £4,215 7s 6d (28.1%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
48 33 15
1732 - 1809
48 33 15
Notes
Altered from Jephson's 'The Hotel; or, The Servant with Two Masters' (1783?), itself altered from Carlo Goldoni's 'Il Servitore di Due Padroni' (1746).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
25 Feb 1797 Covent Garden A Cure For The Heart Ache, Bantry Bay, Two Strings to your Bow No No No £209 14s 6d 49% N/A
08 Jun 1797 Covent Garden The Travellers In Switzerland, Two Strings to Your Bow, The Little Farthing Rushlight No No Yes £298 2s 6d 25% N/A
17 Nov 1798 Covent Garden Lovers' Vows, Two Strings to Your Bow, The Mouth of the Nile No No No £296 14s 51% N/A
16 Jan 1799 Covent Garden The Votary Of Wealth, Two Strings to Your Bow No Yes No £530 12s 6d 69% N/A
27 Mar 1800 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Two Strings to Your Bow, Minuet No Yes No £353 14s 59% N/A
13 Nov 1801 Covent Garden The Duenna, Two Strings to your Bow No No No £501 17s 6d 80% N/A
06 Feb 1802 Covent Garden Love in a Village, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £498 17s 69% N/A
25 Sep 1802 Drury Lane The Brothers, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £301 3s 6d 100% N/A
28 Sep 1802 Drury Lane Cymbeline, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £333 12s 6d 100% N/A
05 Oct 1802 Drury Lane The Rivals, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £162 3s 35% N/A
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